, SecurityFocus 2003-11-23
Security pros gathering at a Stanford University Law School conference on responsible vulnerability disclosure Saturday harmonized on the principle that vendors should be privately notified of holes in their products, and given at least some time to produce a patch before any public disclosure is made. But there was pronounced disagreement on the question of whether or not researchers should publicly release proof-of-concept code to demonstrate a vulnerability.
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An interesting thing is that thousands of people and millions of dollars are involved in virus-fighting efforts ( software ) and patch-writing. If people stop disclosing vulnerabilities all of those people and money would be lost ...
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